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Professional Life Stress and Work Ability Among Media Professionals


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The history of media in elective democracies around the world has been described as the emergence of a professional identity of journalists with claims to an exclusive role and status in society. It is observed that as developments and growth is taking place in the arena of media there are certain potential stressors are also getting attached to it which have influence on the work ability of employees. Maintaining and promoting work ability is an imperative social as well as organizational goal. Research on the population's work ability is a crucial subject from the viewpoint of social objectives. We require information on what variables contain work ability in order to promote it. In this paper the Professional Life stress and Work ability among media professionals are investigated in terms of how these values are challenged or changed in the context of current cultural and technological developments. This study was carried out on 70 media professionals. Results of correlation analysis indicate that Professional Life Stress were significantly negatively related with Work Ability, t-test analysis showed significant difference between male and female employees.

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Professional Life Stress, Work Ability, Media Professionals.
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Adiba Ali
Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Shahina Maqbool
Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


The history of media in elective democracies around the world has been described as the emergence of a professional identity of journalists with claims to an exclusive role and status in society. It is observed that as developments and growth is taking place in the arena of media there are certain potential stressors are also getting attached to it which have influence on the work ability of employees. Maintaining and promoting work ability is an imperative social as well as organizational goal. Research on the population's work ability is a crucial subject from the viewpoint of social objectives. We require information on what variables contain work ability in order to promote it. In this paper the Professional Life stress and Work ability among media professionals are investigated in terms of how these values are challenged or changed in the context of current cultural and technological developments. This study was carried out on 70 media professionals. Results of correlation analysis indicate that Professional Life Stress were significantly negatively related with Work Ability, t-test analysis showed significant difference between male and female employees.

Keywords


Professional Life Stress, Work Ability, Media Professionals.